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 IBS finalizes its SAB line-up
 
 
SAB nominees include four Nobel Prize laureates
 
 
 
Press Release:
February 27, 2012
 
Public Relations & Coordination Team, IBS
 
 
The membership nomination process for the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) has been completed. The board members includes Nobel Prize laureates, and distinguished scholars from Korea and overseas.
The IBS said on February 27, 2012 that it had filled all SAB-member positions. The board is a consulting body that collaborates with the IBS president on decisions about hiring directors for IBS research centers.
The SAB comprises 16 Korean members and nine non-Korean members: The board includes renowned scholars from the fields of physics, life sciences, mathematics, chemistry, Earth sciences, engineering, agriculture, social science, government administration, sociology of science, and humanities.    
Non-Korean members include four Nobel Prize laureates: Roger D. Kornberg, a professor of structural biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine; Ryoji Noyori, the president of RIKEN; Sir Timothy Hunt, an ERC Scientific Council member; Yuan T. Lee, President Emeritus at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
Reputable Korean scholars also sit on the SAB: Doo-Chul Kim, the president of KIAS; Jin-Hyun Kim, the president of the Committee for Establishment of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History (and a former Minister of Science and Technology); Won Namkung, Professor Emeritus at POSTECH; Sue-Goo Rhee, Chair Professor at Ewha Womans University (and Korea’s first National Scientist).
The SAB offers consultation on a wide range of operational issues at the institute: The selection of IBS research-center directors; the evaluation of directors' research achievements; analysis of the institute’s key research areas; assessments of the IBS's future strategic development. 
 
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